Arizona Cardinals 2010 3rd Round Draft Pick: Andre Roberts, Wide Receiver

But hearing Gruden and Kiper saying that he was a big time pick makes me feel better.

I like this pick. To me it means the Cards like what they have at TE. Matt gets another weapon.

if thats possible, heh.

A potential steal with his track speed and “more quick than fast”. fills punt returner need. can play wildcat as pointed out.

Its like this, we lost our #5 (Urban) and our #4 (Doucet) is now our #3. Our #2 (Breaston) was our former #3, so we needed to fill the #4 and #5 anyway. Roberts is another high value pick.

I would have gone Sapp or another defender as mentioned.

I am pissed the 49ers got Mays and the Ravens got Kindle. Also not so happy about Earl Thomas in Seattle. I would have liked another playmaker on defense here, but then again, with Toler, DRC, Kerry and A-dub; Porter, Daryl and Mark Washington, Baggs, Brown and Will Davis, Reggie Walker, Hayes; Dockett, Calais and Dan Williams? That is a roster with a lot of potential

If he plays out like that it would be great. He’s got good speed too. I think the punt return ability skewed him upwards on their weighted board. Sounds like a quality guy all around. Think they could have gone CB here and still got a punt returner. They must have felt depth at WR was weaker than depth in the secondary.

I think myself and others expected one of the big name defenders to be called. Fortunately for us, we have a great coach and front office that has been finding gems in the later rounds for the past three seasons. I think there’s a reason Whiz didn’t take a Sapp or a Griffen for the the simple fact that they are professionals and know more then us. I trust Whiz like everyone else and think Roberts could pan out into a great pick in the 3rd round.

 And not in a War Room makeing real picks. There was a good corner, the fast OT that many had a first round grade, The PSU LB and still some good picks at DE. I never heard of this guy and havent even heard of the school, so it’s easy to say that Whiz knows more about this than I ever will. I hope he turns out to be our #2, but I am still scratching my head.
 I am all smiles about the 1st round. The 2nd I didnt think we needed to trade up, but when 10 picks rolled out and nobody grabed him, I was stunned too. We gave up alot for him, but if our new OLB can play well and stay out of trouble long enough to mentor this guy, I think it was a good pick.
 Over all I think a B+ is the right grade. It was an A before the 3erd round though…

Roberts’ strongest asset is converting first downs. He converted 60.7% of his catches into first downs and 16.1% of his third down catches for first downs as well.

If he only made 16% FIRST DOWNS when he made a catch on 3RD DOWN—that’s 84% he didn’t convert.
Whiz and Graves have been a great drafting team the past few years…except for the 3rd round. (that’s why I wasn’t unhappy with the move up for Washington).
We could use a punt returner because Breaston will be a starter now. But we got Breaston in the 5th round. LSH (our kickreturner) was a 7th rounder.
This pick seems like a reach to me…But then again..I’m just a fan—What do I know.

That is not true.

Until they make a mistake, I will constantly give the benefit of the doubt. I assume its another GREAT pick.
Heavy Chevy out.

will be fine. He will probably end up sharing return duties with LSH as they move Breaston up in rotation. Or he will be in 4 WR sets. So far so good in the draft picking up big needs.. On Fox Sports they gave picking up Williams a C grade and said the Cardinals should have taken Clausen there instead because Leinart should not be the QB. I see it as filling needs and riding out the year with Leinart either good or bad.

I was hoping for a TE or a good slot receiver. Looks like Ken Whiz and co. went with the latter. To me that means one of two things: 1. They are really high on Ben Patrick. 2. They are really high on Andre Roberts, or Both 1. and 2.

A good slot receiver can really help a QB spread out a defense. Plus this kid can be an asset on special teams.

Good Pick!

I think that’s the name of our head scout have been building this Cards team for a while and it has worked I was shocked by the pick but if we come away from this draft with 2 starters and some role players like the last few years then we aced the draft again. On a sour note this is the only pick the cards got air time over and that’s says a lot. Kiper has been good to us on all are later round picks. Remember the 08 draft a lot of you didn’t like the DRC pick and that turned out ok so have faith or in the words of the great #11 faith focus and finish with out the first 2 the 3rd is unattainable

Runs around a 4.4ish, fights after the catch. A little smaller than we’re used to, but that’s never been much of a concern here. Don’t know much else about the guy. I expected Sapp or Owusu-Ansah, and was thinking we would do better to find a project WR later.

I’m okay with the pick, but I would have preferred others.

I think this is a good pick. Needed another receiver to be able to step in if Doucet or Breaston get injured (which both have had a few injuries since their short NFL careers started). I know most wanted us to grab a corner or offensive lineman but I’ve heard Whiz say nothing but good things about those positions. That could be him just trying to give them some motivation but since they didn’t draft either in the first 3 rounds, that to me says he does believe we are fine there. As for the OLB position, there are still good players available they can address this with one of their 3 other picks they still have left in this draft.

Decent pickup here in my opinion.

I’m happy with the pick. One thing Whiz and company have done since coming to Arizona is completely ignore conventional thought that, in the middle rounds, you pick who so called “experts” consider to be the BPA if they are still on the board. This means that analysts may consider a defensive player to have been a late first round or early second round talent, yet here he is in the 3rd round. Conventional wisdom would say to take him because you’re getting great value. However, I love that the Cardinals FO ignores this line of thinking. Instead, they go after guys they feel confident have the skill sets and the work ethic required to be successful. After all, when you think there are other players that may have been better, the other side of that is that there is probably a reason those guys fell so low in the first place.

I’m happy with this pick. Everybody can sit here and say that a WR was not a big need this year and I’ll sit here and heavily disagree. Breaston has been absolutely horrendous at handling punt return duties. I love boobs, but he’s not a good return man. Roberts should provide us with a dangerous punt return threat whch will equate into shorter fields for Matt and the offense. We all know that football is a battle of field position and this gives us a great field position weapon. If, on top of that, Roberts can be used as an elusive weapon on screens, dump downs, or the wildcat than he becomes a great value!

saying, good kick/punt returner, this and that.
in post draft posts.

We have LSH, idk about the rest of you, but i’m pretty happy with his work.

He returned 1 for a TD last year.

It took arrington, like 3yrs to do that.

Breast is out of the question now, i believe, to valuable at WR now.

“Your 4th receiver (especially with Leinart running the system) doesnt need to be all that special. Just a decent guy”

think jeremy urban…with his limited role, he thad a tendency to really change the momentum of games when he got his hands on the ball,or lack there of. i’ll take the guy with great hands